Tag: Talat Xhaferi

This morning, starting at 8 o'clock began the main phase of the census of the population, the households, and the dwellings throughout the North Macedonia, which legally should end on the 21st of April, at 8 pm. This is not April Fools Day joke - the current Law on the Census provisions that starting from the 1st of April, the...

The anti-western Serbian news site "Srbija danas" (Serbia today) yesterday published a text about the results of the second round of the presidential elections in Macedonia, which is none other than speculations and slander and gibberish. The text, full of speculations and slander, is also a personal attack on the newly elected president of Macedonia, Stevo Pendarovski. It claims that Pendarovski...

The legal part was not fulfilled to the end, since the Commission for the Rules of Procedure and Mandate-Immunity Issues did not have a draft decision. I call upon the law, said Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi, at a press briefing regarding why he had not initiated a vote on stripping MP Trajko Veljanoski of his immunity. The MP is charged...

Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi says that last night he had to interrupt the session to strip Trajko Veljanoski of his immunity because the deadline had passed for making a decision, but also because of the behavior of the MP from the majority Mohamed Zeqiri. "The session was interrupted because the time allowed for making a decision in 24 hours has...

The presidential elections are likely to be announced on February 8, and the first round will be held on April 21, and the second round on May 5, Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi said at today's press briefing. "The Parliament is prepared for the elections and will work until the beginning of the election campaign, to hinder the MPs to go campaigning...

Today, Nikola Micevski, Coordinator of the Parliamentary Group of VMRO-DPMNE and the Coalition "For a Better Macedonia", on behalf of the party urged the institutions on central and local level, to ignore and boycott the law on languages ​​and said that if the people in charge in the institutions are faced with problems or threats, VMRO-DPMNE's legal commission will be at...

Today, Parliament Speaker, Talat Xhaferi announced that the presidential elections will be called on February the 8th. The first round of elections will be on April the 21st, and the second round on May the 5th. Xhaferi said that the first round was initially planned to take place on the April the 14th and the latter on April the 28th, but...

At a briefing with journalists, Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi said he will not be running in the upcoming presidential election and will remain president of Parliament. As for the idea of Parliament electing the head of state, Xhaferi says that all parliamentary groups should decide, and if there is a consensus, a change to the Constitution should be passed, which would legally...

The right place for political dialogue and consensus is Parliament and it should not be limited to political parties, but the civil sector, experts and other formal or informal groups should be involved as well. This was stated by the Speaker of the Macedonian Parliament, Talat Xhaferi, at the conference  entitled, "Encouraging political dialogue and consensus", which is being held...

MP Antonio Milososki of VMRO-DPMNE, through a statement sent to the Parliament Speaker, Talat Xhaferi said that he would be participating in the public propaganda campaign in the upcoming referendum. "I, Antonio Milososki MP for VMRO-DPMNE in coordination with the coordinator of the Parliamentary Group of VMRO-DPMNE, inform you that I will take part in the public propaganda campaign for...

Today, Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi notified parliamentary groups that they will have a three-day deadline to answer, whether they would participate in the public propaganda for the referendum, that should be conducted by Parliament, as well as on what kind of campaign they will lead and whether they will be "For" "or "Against" on the referendum issue. The notification was addressed...

The Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia will form a Coordinated Body for the implementation of the referendum on a state level on September 30th and for the conduct of the public campaign. This was one of the conclusions reached at today's coordinative meeting led by Parliament Speaker, Talat Xhaferi. He met with the top representatives of the parliamentary groups, attended by...

The official start of campaigning for the referendum will begin on 10th of September, and all those who want to participate in the campaign will do so, in whatever context they choose, whether they will support or boycott it, or call to vote against it, it depends on them, said Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi at today's press briefing. According to...

MPs from the ruling majority announced that they will submit the initiative for formally announcing the referendum before Parliament Speaker, Talat Xhaferi today at noon. According to information from SDSM’s parliamentary group, MPs have already collected signatures for the initiative to formally announce the referendum. MPs from DUI and BESA have also signed it. After VMRO-DPMNE’s parliamentary group conduct their coordinative...

Parliament Speaker, Talat Xhaferi’s office have reacted to the case regarding the President of the Foreign Policy Committee, Antonio Milososki, ie the violation of the Law on Classified Information by the MP, who is Chairman of the Foreign Policy Committee. "The President of the Foreign Policy Committee has not received a security certificate for over a year, even though Parliament...

If he does not sign the law on the ratification of the treaty with Greece after a second time it will be voted in Parliament, the President of the State Gjorge Ivanov will introduce a bad practice of interference with the responsibility of the authorities, ie taking over the responsibilities which belong to Parliament. This was stated by the...

Today, an inter-party parliamentary group for the rights of the Roma in the Republic of Macedonia was established and promoted in Parliament. The initiators of this idea are MPs Samka Ibraimoski, Dime Velkovski, Irena Stefoska, Maja Morachanin, Liljana Popovska, Enes Ibrahim, Agim Murtezanov, Mirsada Emini-Asani, Ivana Tufegdzic, Gulsumzer Kasapi, Pavle Bogoevski, Slavica Sumanska-Miteva, Sonja Mirakovska and Juliana Nikolova. Parliament Speaker Talat...

It would be frivolous for anyone to think about early parliamentary elections this year, said Parliament Speaker, Talat Xhaferi during a regular press briefing. "There can be elections when MPs disband. However, in a serious country with serious issues, it would be frivolous for anyone to even consider early parliamentary elections. If someone is thinking about it, he would want...

Discussions in the "Jean Monnet" process are taking place in a constructive, working atmosphere, with a consensual attitude between the participants in the need for regulation, that is, the regulation of relations in the Legislative Assembly, said Speaker of Parliament Talat Xhaferi from Ohrid, where talks are under way between representatives of the parliamentary parties in the Macedonian Parliament...

Theresa May, the first UK prime minister to visit Macedonia in almost two decades, said that Macedonia is an integral part of Europe and pledged support for Macedonia's integration into the European Union. May, who was greeted with full honours at the Government said in regards to the name dispute, that it was important that Macedonia had reached out to...